Like most of us, there's a place in town that never seems to have too much yarn (especially non-acrylic) or kitting needles.

SCRAP (School & Community Reuse Action Project) has packed up its "hundreds of shiny buttons, fuzzy felt strips, popsicle sticks, pretty paper, retro board game pieces and oodles of other bobbles, trinkets and creative treasures from its bountiful collection" and moved to a new building at 2915 N.E. MLK Jr. Blvd. "SCRAP's new home, located in the former AAA Heating & Cooling building just a half mile from its former location, effectively doubles its space and provides 7,300 square feet of room for greatly expanded retail, workshop spaces, as well as studios and suites suitable for sub-leasing." The move has been going on for the past several days (with much of it done by bicycle).

The new SCRAP space opens for the first time to the public today (Friday, Jan. 23). Regular retail hours will be 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Thursdays - Saturdays and 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sundays. SCRAP is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. For more information about SCRAP, visit its Web site, www.scrapaction.org

SCRAP, if you've never been, is a very cool nonprofit that "collects clean, reusable creative materials from businesses and individuals and provides these materials at low cost to the local community while promoting creative reuse. Every year, SCRAP diverts 64,000 pounds of material from the waste stream."

SCRAP lists on its Web site what sorts of material it takes in donations, including what it needs more of and what it's got a glut of. Currently knitting supplies are in the former. Donations need to be pre-approved before dropping them off, so look for more information on the Web page.

-- For more fun insights into SCRAP, check out Sara Perry's column that ran in Sunday's Oregonian about favorite donations and requests for the group.